'Checking In,' written by Michael Farren, Garrett Jacobs and Ken Hart, is featured on the soundtrack to For King + Country's movie 'Unsung Hero'.
“Every morning at five o’clock — every single morning — Kyle called his daddy,” Brice remembers. “And so a big part for me when Kyle passed was I was just thinking about his daddy, going, ‘What is his daddy going to do every morning at five o’clock?’ ”Brice thought about Kyle often when he came across “Checking In,” a newly released collaboration with contemporary Christian duo for, due April 26. “Checking In” captures the regret of a son longing for a conversation with his late father.
When he brought up the title, Farren related well to the scenario. His father often leaves messages with the same “just checking in” verbiage, and he started reciting one of them with a melody attached to it. The father/son emotions in that topic were strong, but they were particularly hard for Hart, whose relationship with his dad is decidedly strained. He felt like bolting.
They finished the chorus with the protagonist noting that he even calls his dad back sometimes when he listens to the message. From there, verse two pretty much dictated itself. “The obvious next step,” Farren notes, “was ‘What would I say that voicemail that he’s never going to hear?’ ‘I’m doing all right, work’s been a little hard, but you know, the kids are good. You’d be proud.’ It was just that conversational.
The next morning, Farren performed “Checking In” with acoustic guitar on a TikTok, and by the next morning, he had gotten over 300,000 views. . “That kind of got people’s attention a little bit, to be like, ‘The song might be special,’” Garrett suggests. The brothers let Glover produce it without their input. “I had called Glover and kind of given him my vision for the song, but it still was essentially country,” Smallbone says. “He was like, ‘Hey, man, I’m just going to go do this. If you guys want to come by, you can, but I know exactly what I need to do.’”
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